Some properties of NaBaPO[4]:Eu luminophore surface

There is an increased interest to the compounds of the ABPO[4] type, activated by europium, where A and B are mono- and divalent cations, because of their luminescent properties. In this paper NaBaPO[4]:Eu{2+}phosphors with different europium content were synthesized by SHS method. It is shown that phosphor surface becomes less alkaline (pHiis changes in the interval 10,7-9,5) with an increase in the concentration of an introduced activator (5-12%). Two bands with maxima wavelength of approximately 425 and 490 nm are observed in the luminescent spectra (the positions of maxima differ somewhat in different spectra). The relationship between acid-base and luminescent properties of the investigated phosphor samples is traced

Early Diagnosis of Lung Tumors for Extending Patients’ Life Using Deep Neural Networks

Funding Information: Funding Statement: This work was funded by the Researchers Supporting Project Number (RSP2023R 509) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This work was supported in part by the Higher Education Sprout Project from the Ministry of Education (MOE) and National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, (109-2628-E-224-001-MY3), and in part by Isuzu Optics Corporation. Dr. Shih-Yu Chen is the corresponding author. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Validation of core competencies during residency training in anaesthesiology

Background and goal: Curriculum development for residency training is increasingly challenging in times of financial restrictions and time limitations. Several countries have adopted the CanMEDS framework for medical education as a model into their curricula of specialty training. The purpose of the present study was to validate the competency goals, as derived from CanMEDS, of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Berlin Charité University Medical Centre, by conducting a staff survey. These goals for the qualification of specialists stipulate demonstrable competencies in seven areas: expert medical action, efficient collaboration in a team, communications with patients and family, management and organisation, lifelong learning, professional behaviour, and advocacy of good health. We had previously developed a catalogue of curriculum items based on these seven core competencies. In order to evaluate the validity of this catalogue, we surveyed anaesthetists at our department in regard to their perception of the importance of each of these items. In addition to the descriptive acquisition of data, it was intended to assess the results of the survey to ascertain whether there were differences in the evaluation of these objectives by specialists and registrars

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy in a tertiary hospital in Upper Egypt: six years analysis

Background: Emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) is often performed for life-threatening obstetric conditions especially when conservative treatment approach fails to stop postpartum hemorrhage. The aim of the study is to detect the incidence, indications, and complications of EPH over 6 years in Assiut Women Health Hospital in Upper Egypt.Methods: A historical cohort study conducted between January 2009 and December 2014. Detailed review of all files of cases of EPH including maternal age, parity, gestational age, type of delivery, indications for EPH and outcome of the hysterectomy.Results: The overall incidence of EPH was 1.30 per 1,000 deliveries. The main indications for hysterectomies were uterine atony 60 (48.78 %), abnormal placentation 27 (21.95 %) and rupture uterus 25 (20.32 %). There were 48 (39.02%) maternal deaths, while the perinatal mortality was 20.32% (25 cases). Using multivariate logistic regression analysis, we found that woman’s age ≥ 40 years and parity ≥ 5 were the most significant independent predictors for maternal mortality in cases of EPH (OR 5.49; 95% CI 2.16 - 13.96) and (OR 0.34; 95% CI 0.15 - 0.77) respectively.Conclusions: The incidence of EPH in Upper Egypt is high. Uterine atony is the major indication for EPH in our hospital. Late referral and delayed decisions to perform hysterectomy contributes in the high mortality rate

SA-RFR: self-attention based recurrent feature reasoning for image inpainting with large missing area

With the recent emergence of artificial intelligence, deep learning image inpainting methods have achieved fruitful results. These methods generated plausible structures and textures in repairing images with small missing areas. When inpainting an image with an excessively large missing area (the mask ratio is more than 50%), however, it usually produces a distorted structure or a fuzzy texture that is inconsistent with the surrounding area. Therefore, we propose a self-attention based recurrent feature reasoning (SA-RFR) network. First, SA-RFR uses self-attention (SA) to enhance the correlation between known pixels and unknown pixels and the constraints on the hole center, so that the repaired content details are clearer and the edges are smoother. In addition, because ordinary convolution has feature redundancy for the generated feature map, some unnecessary information is generated, and some models are difficult to train. Therefore, we also propose an adaptive ghost convolution (AGC) to replace part of the ordinary convolution. Using the PReLu activation function instead of the ReLu activation function in the ghost module, AGC can effectively improve the overfitting problem of the model and the quality of the repaired image without increasing the computational cost. The proposed model has undergone extensive experiments on several public datasets, and the results show that our method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods

Preliminary investigation of the associations between psychological flexibility, symptoms, and daily functioning in people with chronic abdominal pain

Objective: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, based in the psychological flexibility model, may benefit people with chronic abdominal pain. The current study preliminarily investigates associations between psychological flexibility processes and daily general, social, and emotional functioning in chronic abdominal pain. Methods: An online survey comprising measures of psychological flexibility processes and daily functioning was distributed through social media. Subjects: 89 participants with chronic abdominal pain were included in the analyses. Results: All investigated psychological flexibility processes significantly correlated with pain interference, work and social adjustment, and depression, in the expected directions (|r|=.35-.68). Only pain acceptance significantly correlated with gastrointestinal symptoms, r=-.25. After adjusting for pain in the analyses, pain acceptance remained significantly associated with all outcomes, |β|=.28 to .56, but depression. After adjusting for pain and pain acceptance, only cognitive fusion remained significantly associated with anxiety, β=-.27, and depression, β=.43. When contrasting GI-specific anxiety with psychological flexibility processes, pain acceptance was uniquely associated with pain-related interference and work and social adjustment, and cognitive fusion and committed action were uniquely associated with depression. Conclusions: Psychological flexibility processes were positively associated with daily functioning in people with chronic abdominal pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy may provide benefit for these people. Further studies with experimental designs are needed to examine the utility of ACT for people with abdominal pain

A cross validation of Consumer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE) with Private Labels in Spain

Molinillo,S., Ekinci, Y., Japutra, A. (2014)'A cross validation of Consumer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE) with Private Labels in Spain'. in Martínez-López, Gázquez-Abad, J.C. and Sethuraman, R. J.A. (eds.) Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing. Second International Conference, 2015. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, pp. 113-125In recent years a number of Consumer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE) models and measurement scales have been introduced in the branding literature. However, examinations of brand equity in Private Labels (PL) are rather limited. This study aims to compare the validity of the two prominent CBBE models those introduced by Yoo and Donthu (2001) and Nam et al. (2011). In order to test the models and make this comparison, the study collected data from 236 respondents who rated private labels in Spain. A list of 30 different fashion and sportswear PL was introduced to respondents. These brands do not make any reference to the retail store in which they are sold. Research findings suggest that the extended CBBE model introduced by Nam et al. (2011) and Ciftci et al. (2014) is more reliable and valid than Yoo and Donthu’s model for assessing PL. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications are discussed.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Selection of Wavelet Subbands Using Genetic Algorithm for Face Recognition

Abstract. In this paper, a novel representation called the subband face is proposed for face recognition. The subband face is generated from selected subbands obtained using wavelet decomposition of the original face image. It is surmised that certain subbands contain information that is more significant for discriminating faces than other subbands. The problem of subband selection is cast as a combinatorial optimization problem and genetic algorithm (GA) is used to find the optimum subband combination by maximizing Fisher ratio of the training features. The performance of the GA selected subband face is evaluated using three face databases and compared with other wavelet-based representations.